Questions

What do you see?

What do you think about that?

What does it make you wonder?

Some context for the artwork

The artist Katharina Fritsch creates sculptures of familiar objects but adjusts them through changes in scale and color. Fritsch says this about her work: “The results are often jarring and may remind you of a dream or perhaps a nightmare.” Is the mouse in this artwork guarding the figure or threatening them?

Activity

What is the shape of your blackness?

Listen to storyteller Jéhan Òsanyìn’s response to this artwork.

Now, write your own story in response to this prompt.

A little about the technique we’re using

“See, Think, Wonder” is a thinking routine developed by Project Zero at Harvard University that encourages careful observations and thoughtful interpretations. This technique can be used individually or in a group. Try using the three stems together at the same time: “I see..., I think..., I wonder…”